mark: governor haley barbour.ook is "america's great storm, bleeding through hurricane katrina." thank you for joining us. we will be right back with a special highlights reel. ♪ john: kim davis, the kentucky clerk who is in prison because she opposed to a marriage licenses, was released from prison today. mike huckabee was there. you had to see the whole thing. >> thanks to this incredibly brave lady, who decided the courage of her convictions was more important than simply even her own freedom. mark: is the story over? john: i have the feeling not. we are live 20 47 on bloomberg politics.com. for now, sayonara. ♪ joe: we are moments away from the closing bell. >> i matt miller in for alix steel. joe: stocks rebounding, have the best days of the year. copper surged the most in two years. but the question is, "what'd you miss?" the china factor. china's way over global markets persist today as the late rally in shanghai, stocks and equities in europe higher. alix: plus, puerto rico's giant

mark: governor haley barbour.ook is "america's great storm: leading through hurricane katrina." thank you for joining us. we will be right back with a special highlights reel. ♪ john: kim davis, the kentucky clerk who is in prison because she opposed gay marriage licenses, was released from prison today. mike huckabee was there. you had to see the whole thing. >> thanks to this incredibly brave lady, who decided the courage of her convictions was more important than simply even her own freedom. i'm tired of watching people being harassed because they believe something of their faith. mark: is the story over? john: i have the feeling not. we are live 24/7 on bloomberg politics.com. emily: apple prepares to unveil new iphones. the top things you need to prepare for for that big event. i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west."i coming up, documentary filmmaker shines her spotlight on the excesses of san francisco's tech community. will speak to nancy pelosi about the widening income divide. plus, the latest start

thank you, haley barbour. >>> up next, pope francis is coming to america in two weeks. he's leading the catholic church in a more liberal, more tolerant direction, climate change, social issues. how long can social conservatives in this country continue to dig in and fight against the changing tide of history? >>> battle royale over faith and progressive politics has hit the front pages today. pope francis is making friends on the left and some enemies on the right and he's headed for washington. as "the washington post" reports, conservative dissent is brewing inside the vatic an right now. the changes left the hierarchy more polarized than any point since the great reformers of the 1960s. the pope's leading something of a liberal crusade. you might also call it a crusade of compassion. this is what he said about homosexuals, about gay people, who am i to judge? on climate change, our home is being ruined by human activity. our home being the earth. his directed priests to offer an sole ugs to women who had abortions and called for softer immigration policies. when he

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former governor haley barbour needs no introduction. you are familiar with his many years of work in the nation's capital and he gets around on the world stage. i was talking several years ago to richard ford, who at the time was doing teaching at trinity college in dublin and he was wandering around the campus kind of exploring his new setting and the opened the door to lecture hall and there is haley barbour lecturing on international politics right there in ireland. a governor with many talents, what may have been the most significant chapter from mississippi was the politicians and public servants began ten years ago this week as the wind began gathering in to what would be the monster storm of hurricane katrina. overs the next year, the governor, his wife, marsha, all over mississippi and the gulf coast worked tirelessly in uncharted territory so in this new book "america's great storm: leading through hurricane katrina" the governor gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how he handled this uncharted territory and the important less

in our lineup tonight, dealing with the donald, sitting with stephen and having a ball with haley barbour page turning alert. hillary clinton campaign has identified a week time -- weak period. exhibit

thank you very much, haley barbour. coming up, if you have any superpower, what would it be?day. is that a superpower? >> wouldn't you trade 10% of your brain for looks or vice versa? "time" magazine put celebrities on the spot. stay with us. we'll be right back. >> where do you live? >> in the city. >> do you have an apartment? >> yes. >> where is your office? >> i don't have one. >> where is your wife? >> don't have one. >> do you have kids? >> no. >> what's your record for consecutive questions asked? >> i'm your dad's brother all right. >> nancy gibbs is here to reveal "time's" question everything issue which is super fun. we'll do that but i want to get to photo essays. those incredible. we'll start with what are the best questions in here and why are you asking them? >> how many times do we walk into a room and you see six people around a table not talking to each other because they're texting somebody else. >> that's everywhere now. >> so this was an exercise in inspiring conversation. these are questions to which there are not answers. there are just opportunities to

former new york city mayor rudy giuliani but that's an rnc chairman governor haley barbour all on deck this morning. stay with us for all of that. apple to focus on wall street and main street. the technology giant to announce its newest found the debris than product later today. check out the cabinets clip. a british just suffering engine failure before taking off in las vegas. of the 172 passengers, 14 people were injured on the fire. serena williams quest for a grand slam continues. the u.s. open. serena winning and moving on to the semi finals. >> thank you for all joining me for my first episode of the late show starring stephen colbert. im me. you are witnessing television history. unlike most history, it's not on the history channel and i'm so excited to be here right now. maria: stephen colbert making his debut and positive reviews and details of the interview with jeb bush in george clooney coming up. the market on fire this morning. yesterday's big move with u.s. stocks coming up with the biggest one-day gain in two weeks with the dow industrials up 309 points yesterday. they

in our lineup tonight, dealing with the donald, sitting with stephen and having a ball with haley barbourturning alert. hillary clinton campaign has identified a weak period. it is seeking to transform its candidate to a more humanlike figure. exhibit a, on "world news tonight" where clinton finally

former new york city mayor rudy giuliani but that's an rnc chairman governor haley barbour all on deckstay with us for all of that. apple to focus on wall street and main street. the technology giant to announce its newest found the debris than product later today. check out the cabinets clip. a british just suffering engine failure before taking off in las vegas. of the 172 passengers, 14 people were injured on the fire. serena williams quest for a grand slam continues. the u.s. open.

first days was the only one who took this seriously, she declared an emergency before governor haley barbour, the governor of mississippi, two days before governor ray nagin, the president of the united states, did an admirable job, looking for a poll numbers, it just creamed her, she was seen as somebody who was not up to the task so i think she became to my mind, as anybody could in terrible circumstances, with that said, i put the filled recovery with the slow recovery at her feet. beautiful program on paper, largest housing recovery program, $10 billion, it was created to make a middle-class, working class hole. and what it would take to show up, she based it on the appraised value of someone's home and the cost of rebuilding. it is valued, sell less than home and a white community, the high ground was pretty much taken by the time black ownership as available to most african-americans so who was and always like parts of the city? the majority were african-americans and to do the numbers in the seventh word, black working-class neighborhood, $60 a square foot. $100 a square foot to rebui

governor haley barbour joining us. >>> and plenty more to talk about concerning the state of play in the 2016 race. in the 2016 race for the white house of course, but first donald trump's rise in the crowded gop field. just how did he get there and can he sustain his front-runner status going into this new debate? fox news senior correspondent eric shawn. good morning to you. >> good morning, marie a. good morning to everyone. now comes round two and the stakes get higher at the next debate on wednesday. >> raise your hand now if you won't make that pledge tonight. mr. trump. >> well, the first debate on the fox news channel started with a bang. instead of being tripped up donald trump went up and up. the latest polls show he is so far maintaining that lead in the first crucial primary states. in iowa mr. trump garners 21% followed by cruz, bush, fiorina, rubio, and kasich. in new hampshire he's at about the same, 28%. that happens to be double john kasich followed by carson, bush, fiorina rounding out the top five. and then in south carolina mr. trump is leading by even more than i

have a program, we had a conference at the press club yesterday with secretary foxx and governor haley barbourre working on right now. we have over 1.4 million members. half of our members put a key in and start and drive on the roads every day. that's important. so they know about what's going on with the infrastructure, whether it's our bridges, whether it's our roads, whether it's our ports. they're falling apart. we're falling behind. and what we have to do is to have a bipartisan approach to this administration and to the congress to say how do we get to the so we're not so partisanship and what's happening is they basically, the republicans want to pass these short-term bills. and we need a long-term bill, five-year bill, with a trillion dollars, to get this program going to start getting america where it should be. >> so from your standpoint, if there were a government shutdown based on republican objections to planned parenthood funding or any other obstacle this would be a nightmare for you and your membership? >> it would be devastating to us. and hurt all america. the last shutdown

haley barbour goes "on the record."d evening, sir. >> good evening. >> obviously heart breaking. we have unaccompanied minors and many adults starving, desperate. what do we do? >> well, let me just say first of all, the bad news is if this iranian deal goes through, this could get worse. he would are going to put tens of billions of dollars into the hands of these biggest state terrorist span sponsoring country in at world. established an arc that runs from tehran to beirut to damascus and baghdad. most of these people fleeing are syrian muslims who are sunnies and, of course the shia terrorism compared. >> iran. >> plus the crazies in isis. these people, there will be more of them fleeing if what we see is a collapse in this arc to where you have shiite governments running. this look at what's happened in iraq since the shiite governments took over, since the iranian influence has increased so dramatically. the sunnies are scared. they are being murdered. the kurds have finally -- have fortunately got enough strength

one, and i haven't spoken with them personally on this issue, but i -- reporting tells me that haley barbour, ed gillespie, the republican establishment now does not believe that this race is going to be wrapped brup the convention. they think this is going to be 1976 all over again. i'm just saying. the republican establishment that tried to make this tidy now most that -- >> the upside of this is that this is going to be one heck of a fight in which the winner, trump or somebody else, defines him or herself to the american public in a really powerful way. this is the kind of race, i'm not just being a journalist watching a car wreck, i'm saying i think this will be a really interesting one. this will tell us -- this is an interesting car wreck and will tell us what the future of the republican party is. how they want to speak to the country. >> look at this. the poll also shows trump's favorability among republicans increasing. it has grown from just 20% in june to 40% in july and then rising to 52% last month and now 59% in the last few days. >> if you look at those numbers, his standing

. >> coming up next, mississippi governor haley barbour recalls his role in the state's recovery from hurricane katrina. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> welcome. i am leila salisbury, and i am thrilled to see all of you this evening, i want to give a special thank you to our book friends of the university press of mississippi for this beautiful spread of snacks and to take